Heinrich Brück

Heinrich Brück ( born October 25, 1831 in Bingen, † November 5, 1903 in Mainz ) was bishop of Mainz.

Life

Born in Bingen as the son of a winemaker and cooper he learned his father's craft, took private lessons on the side and was in 1851 the matriculation examination. After studying in Rome and Mainz, he was ordained priest on 30 March 1855. Brück 1861 became a professor at the Episcopal seminary in Mainz, where he worked until his episcopal election, except from 1878 to 1887, when the seminary was closed during the Kulturkampf. 1899 chose to Heinrich Brück for canon, after the death of Bishop Haffner, he was born on November 2, 1899 episcopal administrator. On 21 December the same year he was elected bishop of Mainz. The bishop He was ordained on May 20, 1900 by the Archbishop of Freiburg, Thomas Nörber; Mitkonsekrator was Paul Wilhelm von Keppler, Bishop of Rottenburg.

On his election as Bishop reported the Grünstadter Zeitung No. 301, 22 December 1899

" Mainz, December 21. Today, the election of a new bishop took place. After a solemn High Mass in the cathedral which was celebriert by the episcopal Dr. Brück and upon which all clergymen of the town and neighborhood parties interested, the Domcapitel with the government officials, Attorney General Schlippe pulled into St. Nicholas chapel back to where the choice of make bishop. On completion of the election of the Secretary of the Domcapitels, Dr. returned self, back into the church, ascended the pulpit and announced that it had been elected bishop of the diocese of Mainz, from Domcapitel, the Bisthumsverweser Professor Dr. Heinrich Brück. After the priest had returned in solemn train in the church, the " Te Deum " and then the " Domine fac Salvum " was sung. All the bells of the cathedral and parishes proclaimed then that the diocese had a bishop again. "

After a resume of the report stated further:

" The hervorragenste action unfolded on the newly elected literary areas; it is known as church historian. As a fruit of his many years of academical activity are besides many smaller works: A widely used textbook of church history, which was, French and Italian translated into English and has thus found entrance to all universities and seminaries. Furthermore, a history of the Upper Rhine ecclesiastical province and a church history of the 19th century. "

Works

• Textbook of Church History, Mainz, 1874
• History of the Catholic Church in Germany in the nineteenth century, Vol 5, Mainz, 1887-1905
• Adam Franz Lennig Generalvicar and Domdecan of Mainz in his life and work. Mainz, Kirchheim 1870